The Institut für Design Science München invited the fourth time to the annual conference at Leucorea in Wittenberg, Germany, featuring affiliates of GSIS. The core theme was, as always, on structural transformation and public discourse and reflected ongoing research and…
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Rainer E. Zimmermann guest-edited a special issue of philosophies. He writes: For more than a century, the idea that the universe is lavishly filled with a multitude of living structures was a straightforward theoretical consequence of the Cosmological Principle within…
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4 to 6 September 2020, the Institut für Design Science München organised its traditional face-to-face event in Wittenberg (2018, 2019), this time without co-organisers and under the conditions of restrictions according to the COVID-19 pandemic. The GSIS Emergent Systems Group…
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Mark Burgin, GSIS Chief Information Scientist, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Member of the Emergent Systems Group, and Marcin Schroeder, President of the International Society for Information Studies (IS4SI), published the proceedings of the IS4SI Berkeley Summit on AI in 2019. They collected…
In developing a theory of the evolution of systems that process information, Annette Grathoff had been busy to elucidate the origins of physical information. At the Berkeley Summit of the IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information), she gave…
The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit – held every second year – took place at the University of California, Berkeley, June 2-6, 2019. It was organised by neuro-anthropologist Terrence W. Deacon from UC Berkeley. Keynote speakers…
